As prisons go, Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia was unusually luxurious. For one, it had flush toilets — beating ...

A Tennessee grand jury has returned dozens of indictments tied to a wave of violence inside one of the state's largest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2019, the filmmakers entered an Alabama state prison expecting to film a revival meeting. What they encountered instead were ...

I was one of the researchers in the well-known Stanford prison experiment in 1971, demonstrating the destructive dynamics that are generated when one group of people — randomly assigned as “guards” — ...

DELANO — Kristopher Thomas has been in prison since 2010, when he was sentenced to 50 years to life for killing a man who identified himself as a member of a rival Los Angeles Crip gang, according to ...

When people hear that I teach sociology in a maximum-security prison, they often ask if I’m afraid. Then they assume I enter the prison, share knowledge and transform incarcerated students. That’s not ...